Where are my Library Cruise Ships? Common spaces taken up with libraries, reading nooks, and small cafes with reading lamps and comfy chairs. Pool and upper decks still available, people like to sun & read. Nightly entertainment, of course. Or the staff can bring a cozy blanket to your nook.

Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

There are two kinds of people in the world: Doctors and Pagliaccis.

Like most of you I only use #TimeTravel for trivial things: i. Grabbing a Strawberry Julius from the mall. ii. Taking some pictures to add to my 16 volume photo-essay on the life of Cato. iii. Fitting a free weekend into the middle of the work week.

#boardgames day! Shogun—like El Grande but with combat? Good, came 2nd. Klondike Rush—bid on four companies and place mines. More mines, higher stock prices. Most $ wins. Came 2nd. Thunder Road—car exploded, car exploded, didn’t win. A fun time with friends, some tasty veggie food, good times.

Weird Banana Science? You buy a bunch. They age and get darker while the insides get softer. This bunch: remained vibrant and yellow—but the insides of the last one were too ripe. Not a blemish on the skin, still.

What’s your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only) Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Presented in the original Hebrew.* *If by Hebrew one means Old English.

Your cue: random TV scene that you think about a lot. Go! youtu.be/2gzXk0R6nEM?...

Why do Viltrimites—natural fliers—have stairs?

My Dad's fraternal Org had one of these at the cottage they shared, used as a beer-cooler. Getting to load it with Dad's beer was one of my many joys at that cottage. It lives forever in my memories, although I haven't seen one for 50 years. youtube.com/shorts/UFJSO...

"That thumping is the beating of your guilty heart." -Sentinel Comics TTRPG, a PC on the sound of their heavy footfalls.

#boardgames Saturday afternoon spent playing The John Company for the first time. 6 players. 5 hours including sorting out the rules, etc. would be a lot shorter on a second play. Glad to finally get it to the table.

It's my building's fire alarm testing day, a long series of shortish ear-splitting noises that do wonders for my (thankfully mild) tinnitus, and which is generally a joy almost beyond description. (Sarcasm has been deployed).

If you need a look for your mobile salvage base for #ttrpg Salvage Union? Look no further.

It would be truly macabre if we ate rabbits they way we eat chocolate bunnies. 0. (Eyes either as an apetizer or in step 2). 1. We eat the ears. 2. Next we devour the skull. 3. Then....

Science Fiction Show Logic (B5 this time). “We do not harm are own kind, we never have.” Dude. You have a Warrior Caste!

Depluralize a movie. Fargo… …dammit! Wait… The Amigo

A weekend at the folks’ for the holidays breaks me from my electronic life-line and lets me get lots of reading done. Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief is wonderful and coarse and recommended. “Goblins are ****ing unmarriageable.” It got a snort and a laugh from me.

I still buy my furniture from Unpainted Huffhines.

Thanks to R&J for hosting another #AwesomeFriday Played a few rounds of Skull(s?), a bidding/push your luck game. Played a round of a samurai duelling game. (Won). Played two rounds of Heat (no fancy add on rules because alcohol and 1st time players) came 2nd and 1st. Chatted. Ate. #boardgames

The only reason I'm not in love with this? It's still Thursday.

Top 3 reasons this whole moon-trip is probably a hoax. 3. The Martian Orbital Blockade. It's been over a century since their failed invasion, but they're still out there! 2. The price of gas. Nobody can afford to fuel a whole rocket at these prices! 1. 384,400 km away? You could never reach it!

Trexlantlotl wasn't much of a spell-caster, but if he could he surely would have. He did craft an insect repellent paste for the non-scaled party members that doubled as a marinade, just in case.

He space-swears, has a space-leather jacket, a space-cigar and a space-motorcycle. He's a space-bully who made every comic he ever appeared in the worse for it. I never liked Lobo. (And I acknowledge Bisley's skill, but never fancied his art). I will admit that Jason Momoa is perfect casting.

What ever happened to solid, enjoyable dramas like The West Wing that didn't feel the need to get all political?! #snarf

#boardgames Played a couple rounds of Cascadia last night.

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid. This scene (among others).

#ttrpg The "play mat" for our Sentinel Comics game. Abstract map for the scene in the centre, Scene time tracker on top, initiative bar to the right. I still have some work to do on icons, but this will do for the first scene. To do: Add the Overcome and Boost/Hinder charts.

Annual afternoon 8 player 1 vs 1 Dice Throne tournament—our own March Madness!

If I taught English History at a University I would change my name to Ed so I could be: Edward the Professor.

I have a sort of morbid curiosity about "Sovereign Citizens" in court. My favourite "angle" is the "I am not the person on those documents because my name isn't spelled in all-caps." Has that *ever* worked? Has anyone tried "...because my name is written in Cursive"?

According to (the spurious) Ancestro-dot-com I'm 100% descended from strange single-celled organisms living in the primordial soup of almost 4 billion years ago! I wonder when the next family reunion is.

#ttrpg My favourite spell across all D&D editions and the OSR world of retro- and pseudo-clones? Locate Agatha Molestrangler, 49 Blurm St From Skerples wonderful Magical Industrial Revolution.

For St Patrick's Day my sushi (maki rolls) were stuffed with little slivers of green cucumber and wrapped in green nori seaweed.

I'm sorry, but Tuesday is just not convenient for me. Please adjust your calendars so today is Thursday. Thank you for your cooperation.

#ttrpg We started building our Sentinel Comics RPG setting using the sheets from Spectaculars. New Avalon in 1995, a city on a dimensional rift in the New England region--ripe with Arthurian references (honestly that sort of surprised me). The players went with "Monster Squad" as the group type.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

My parents found this in their son’s apartment! What should they do? #iCanQuitAnyTimeIWant

Considering working for Dr Skull? Pros: 1. Bring your pet to work Wednesdays. 2. Green energy. The entire base is geothermally powered by the Skullcano. 3. Kidnapped Michelin star chefs in the cafeterias! Cons: 1. Mandatory Gladiatorial Combat Mondays. 2. Severance package involves lasers.

"It worked for a steam-ship! Oil tankers will be child's play!" -Fitzcarraldo

#fake The show would have hit a lot differently if they stuck with the originally proposed name: Battlestar Caligula

#ttrpg Is there anything as cruel as a "final session of the campaign level up"? Me, pondering doing exactly that.

Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler

Say this about the 1970s. The Vampire Hunters had a sense of style...

Watching Department Q. “Tartan noir” with the three Scottish actors who aren’t David Tennant, starring someone with a passing resemblance to Tennant. All the characters are deeply flawed (minus Edinburgh—which is certainly a character but is mostly there to be gloomy). Good if you like that stuff.

Discussing how big your very large geese should be. Goosossus. I may not recover from that one. Brilliant.

Well, having finished three seasons of Mr Inbetween (which I enjoyed) I am at a loss. Also, the crossed hammer and khopesh were invoked in today’s game, proving Marxism is over 4000 years old. So that happened.

By “no war” we obviously meant *some* war. I mean, let’s be realistic, we’re hardly likely to commit no acts of aggression.

Me: It's sooo late. *gets ready for bed* *checks time* 8:20 pm Me: Oh, come on! I'm not *that* old!